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On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:13 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> I dealt with udev too. I switched to something that doesn't force me to |
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> chose having /usr on / or having a init thingy. Since I switched, I can |
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> have /usr on its own partition and not have a init thingy. Having |
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> options worked very well. Not having a option would not have ended as |
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> well for me and others. |
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Yeah, this is the great thing about Open Source! |
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> For me, I just didn't like the way udev was going so I, and others, |
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> complained a lot and when someone came up with a better plan, I switched |
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> as I'm sure others did too. If people that use Gnome don't like |
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> pulseaudio, they should have a option to use something else. If they |
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> don't have that option, then in my opinion it is perfectly acceptable |
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> for a person to say they don't like it. If everyone just goes along and |
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> doesn't say anything, then people that can make a option won't know one |
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> is needed to begin with. |
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I think it's fine to not like something and to say so. However, there is |
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a line between respectfully requesting features, and complaining about |
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something that someone is giving you for free (hence my gift horse |
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reference). I don't intend this last sentence to read harshly, or |
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intended as a personal attack against anyone. I'm just sharing how the |
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mood of some posts on this thread feels to someone who is an Open Source |
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developer. |
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The word "force" is not appropriate to be used in the context of Open |
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Source software. We all have the freedom to choose any number of |
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alternatives to Gnome or udev (including already existing forks and |
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derivatives). Force more often involves men with guns (or Darth Vader). |
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The project that I work on does not "force" you to use MongoDB. However, |
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if you wish you make use of my project in the way it was intended to be |
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used without modifications, you will need to use MongoDB. It's a hard |
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dependency. Nobody is forcing you to use my project, and there are |
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alternatives you can choose from. You also have the freedom to git clone |
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us, and change it to use SQLite, or MariaDB, or PostgreSQL, or anything |
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else you like (however, if you use LDAP as a database, I know someone |
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who might hunt you down!) By the nature of us giving you the code with |
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an Open Source license (GPL), it's freedom for you, not force. |
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> I shortened the above but since you mentioned using windoze instead of |
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> Linux, that is not a option here. I'll donate money/time or whatever I |
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> can to Linux but I will NOT pay for a OS that is even half as crappy as |
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> windoze. I have never bought anything M$ and have no plans to ever do |
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> it either. It just is not a option for me. I have family/friends that |
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> use windoze and that is about all I can stand. Actually, I switched my |
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> brother about a year ago. I switched him to Kubuntu but it still beats |
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> the stuffins out of windoze. |
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I think you may be thinking of someone else. I don't recall having ever |
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mentioned The Evil OS®. I too have been using Linux exclusively for a |
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fairly long while :) |
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Randy Barlow |